Famicom Cartridges for NESMaker

[StarBlades]

If we were to take our finished product and sell it in Japan, this would be a good idea. But then again, there's translating, censorship, etc... And lets be real. The Famicom cartridges are adorably small, saving a lot of materials. If anyone can do that, let me know. Honestly, I think its a good idea. if you have anything against this, go ahead, it won't hurt my feelings................maybe a little.

 

[mouse spirit]

Its roundabout doable. Not with this mapper probly.I think it would be awesome. There are different size famicarts so maybe a bigger one could work if you figure a way to change the mapper to something usable for this idea.

 

[CutterCross]

There are companies like MuraMasa who sell 60-pin UNROM 512 / Mapper#30 boards and cartridge shells for the Famicom:

https://www.muramasaentertainment.com/product/fc-unrom-512-mapper-30/

 

[mouse spirit]

Nice. I didnt know they did famicom, that is who i got my board from. It was a pain to find any good directions. Felt gatekeepy. Anyway i threw a zipsocket on it so i can reburn my eeprom when i test again. I dont test on hardware often so its fine. Something like dart, you probly hardware tested abunch i assume. My game is simple
and worked so far, so good.

 

[CutterCross]

Nice. I didnt know they did famicom, that is who i got my board from. It was a pain to find any good directions. Felt gatekeepy. Anyway i threw a zipsocket on it so i can reburn my eeprom when i test again. I dont test on hardware often so its fine. Something like dart, you probly hardware tested abunch i assume. My game is simple
and worked so far, so good.

The problem with DART was just getting the INL retro-programmer to flash to horizontal mirroring in the first place. By default they're set to flash for vertical mirroring, as NESmaker's mirroring type is also set to vertical by default. The problem is that none of the flasher scripts that were included with NESmaker could actually change the mirroring type that's flashed onto the board. I had to use Mugi's external flasher folder for that.

Changing the iNES header to horizontal mirroring is easy. Getting it onto a standalone board that way was not. I have no idea why Joe or whoever took out the mirroring switch functionality but eh, it doesn't matter to me much anymore.

 

[PasseGaming]

That's more or less what kept me from buying their products, is that I have no idea how to construct a rom board and it seems beyond by abilities. Would be nice to save some money on parts though.